At first glance, you may look at Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor and write it off as a half-cooked licensed product in a franchise somewhat known for throwing their name on anything, regardless of quality. I urge you to shake…
Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor Review
When I was in 12th grade I spent the majority of a partly cloudy Saturday in a classmate’s basement reading through Tolkien’s magnum opus, The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not out of personal curiosity, mind you, but as a…
Velocity 2X Review
The arcade space shoot em up is, quite literally, one of the oldest genres in gaming. From Spacewar! back in the 70’s, “shmups” have taken the last 50 years to iterate and refine the art of flying in one direction…
Ramblet Episode 6
This Ramblet features Chris Wagar of Gather Your Party and his article “Tripping on Air: Why Game Journalists Can’t Describe Games”. Spawned by an article written dissing Super Smash Bros. fans, Chris waxes poetic about a general inability to accurately…
Ramblet Episode 5
Ramblets are back! With Jarrett this episode is Mike Eaton of Twinfinite.com to discuss his article “4 Reasons Why Bungie Needs to Announce Destiny Remastered Now.” As it is just in time for Destiny Day, keep in mind the article…
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth1 Review
Full disclosure: I’ve never played any of the Neptunia games.They were much too niche for me to even be aware of their existence. With the relative drought in regards to meaty content for Vitas in the last couple of months,…
Abyss Odyssey Review
Saving Chile (and, you know, the world) can be pretty difficult. Especially when you’re frenemies with the source of the impending doom. You deride the Abyss and its both effortless and indiscriminate destruction throughout the 19th-century South American countryside, but…
The Wolf Among Us Season 1 Review
The pages of any Raymond Chandler or Chester Himes novel can make almost any reader feel like a hardboiled gumshoe. You can live in the dark, twisted corners of fictionalized versions of real-life locales, dirtied by the urchins who grow…
Opinion: It’s Time to Stop Being Excited About The Last Guardian
A fiasco happened a few weekends ago – the calm before the E3 storm. IGN, the internet’s largest game related site, reported that The Last Guardian was cancelled. The same day it was published, Sony’s Scott Rohde confirmed that the game…
Always Sometimes Monsters Review
Adventure games have come a long way since Myst and are enjoying a second wind in this new indie renaissance because of their generally low cost to make and lack of pressure to deliver a product of a certain genre…
The Wolf Among Us: In Sheep’s Clothing Review
There’s something missing in the 4th episode of Telltale’s The Wolf Among Us. The writing is consistently high quality, it runs as it always has, but it’s somewhat empty in comparison to every installment before it. In a vacuum, this…
The Timeless (and Frustrating) Tropes of JRPGs
There are few genres as synonymous with hardcore gaming like the RPG. There was a time in history when the Japanese dominated console gaming with their particular brand of role playing, based loosely on the pen and paper variety at…